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Group  of  Christian  Physicians,  Japan 


A  Record  of  1092  Leaders  of  Japan 

uTXTE  should  expect  to  find  Christian  men  and  women 
\  \  occupying  positions  of  authority  and  influence  in  the 
educational  world  of  Japan,”  says  Dr.  William  Axling,  a  well- 
known  missionary  of  that  country.  “A  large  company  ol 
Christian  leaders  who  as  presidents  and  professors  of  the 
Christian  schools  and  colleges  bring  distinction  to  their  insti¬ 
tutions,  are  held  in  high  regard  by  all  classes  in  the  country 
and  some  have  won  fame  abroad.  ...  In  the  field  of  medi¬ 
cine  the  Christians  are  notably  represented  and  rare  is  the 
church  that  does  not  have  a  physician  among  its  members. 

.  .  .  The  movements  for  social  reform  and  temperance  have 
the  strong  support  of  the  Christian  forces.  .  .  .  One  of  the 
most  interesting  and  hopeful  evidences  of  the  influence  of 
Christianity  is  the  number  of  Christian  men  prominent  in 

the  industrial  lde  of  the  nation,  who  in  their  business  methods 

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and  in  the  treatment  of  their  employees  are  giving  practical 


expression  to  the  teachings  of  Christ.  .  .  .  Finally,  in  that 
important  place  of  influence,  the  Christian  ministry,  there  is 
a  company  of  men  who  would  rank  as  leaders  among  the 
Christian  forces  of  any  land.  .  .  .  Thus  along  every  walk  of 
life  go  the  Christian  torch  bearers.” 

Among  the  more  no¬ 
table  mission  schools 
which  have  contributed 
to  this  large  group  of 
Christian  professional 
and  business  men  in 
Japan  “Chinzei  Gakuin” 
(“Southwestern  Educa¬ 
tional  Institution”)  holds 
an  important  place. 
From  1888,  when  the  in¬ 
stitution  graduated  its 
first  class  of  6  members, 
until  June  of  1925,  1,092 
young  Japanese  men 
have  graduated  from  it.  The  record  of  these  graduates  shows 
that  of  those  living,  11  are  school  principals,  69  are  school 
teachers,  24  are  pastors,  24  are  in  the  United  States  pursuing 
courses  of  study,  while  156  are  students  in  higher  educational 
institutions  in  Japan.  Among  the  other  graduates  are:  artists, 
4;  army  officers,  8;  bank  employees,  23;  business  men,  166; 
company  employees,  196;  contractors,  2;  consuls,  2;  govern¬ 
ment  officials,  85;  judges,  2;  lawyers,  2;  newspaper  men,  14; 
pharmacists,  14;  physicians,  31;  writers,  1.  Two  other  grad¬ 
uates  are  Buddhist  monks.  Eighty-nine  of  the  graduates  are 
deceased  and  the  occupations  of  46  are  unknown  Fhis  is  a 
record  of  which  any  secondary  school  might  well  be  proud. 


■■  » 

DEGREES  GRANTED  CHINZEI 
ALUMNI 

In  U.  S.  A. 


Bachelor  and  Master .  20 

In  Japan 

Doctor  of  Medicine .  3 

Master  of  Medicine .  2 

Master  of  Engineering .  5 

Master  of  Agriculture .  1 

Master  of  Arts .  2 

Master  of  Law .  6 

Master  of  Commerce .  1 

Doctor  of  Philosophy .  3 


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A  History  and  a  Future 

WHEN  the  Rev.  Carroll  N.  Long,  Ph.D.,  left  T  ennessee  in 
1880  to  enter  the  missionary  service  of  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church  in  Japan,  he  was  given  #2.00  by  Mrs.  N.  E. 
Cobleigh,  the  widow  of  a  former  president  of  Tennessee  Wes¬ 
leyan  University.  “Use  this  for  Christian  education  in  [apan,” 
said  Mrs.  Cobleigh.  With  this  sum  as  a  nucleus  Dr.  Long 
obtained  from  his  personal  friends  several  hundred  dollars 
with  which  to  organize  a  Christian  school  in  Japan. 

Conference  with  missionary  leaders  resulted  in  the  decision 
to  erect  the  proposed  school  in  the  then  growing  city  of  Naga¬ 
saki.  On  October  23,  1881,  the  new  school  opened  with  three 


President  Noboru  Kawasaki  was 
born  at  Obi,  Miyazaki  Prefecture, 
Kyushu,  on  October  10,  1870.  As 
a  young  lad  he  entered  Chinzei, 
and  became  a  Christian.  In  June, 
1894,  he  hnished  Chinzei’s  Middle 
School  course.  Four  years  later  he 
was  graduated  from  her  theological 
department.  Later  he  went  to 
America,  where  he  attended  Bos¬ 
ton  University,  graduating  in  1906. 
The  next  year  he  received  his  Mas¬ 
ter’s  degree,  and  in  1908  was  grad¬ 
uated  from  Boston  University  School  of  Theology  with  the 
degree  of  Bachelor  of  Sacred  Theology.  Upon  his  return  to 
Japan,  he  served  for  several  years  as  pastor  ot  Wesley  Church 
(Nagasaki),  and  teacher  ol  Bible  in  Chinzei  Gakuin.  Tn  1920  he 
was  elected  president  ol  his  Alma  Mater. 


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departments:  preparatory,  collegiate,  and  theological.  A 
three-year  course  of  study  was  offered  in  each  department. 
Seven  years  later  three  young  men  were  graduated  from  the 
collegiate  department  and  three  from  the  theological  depart¬ 
ment. 

In  its  earliest  days  the  school  was  known  as  “Cobleigh  In¬ 
stitute.”  In  1906  its  present  name  was  adopted.  In  1899  it 
was  recognized  as  a  school  by  the  department  of  education  of 
the  Imperial  Japanese  Government.  With  the  organization  of 
the  Japan  Methodist  Church  in  1907,  the  theological  depart¬ 
ment  of  Chinzei  Gakuin  was  discontinued,  the  students  of 
that  course  being  sent  to  the  Methodist  theological  school  in 
Kobe,  or  to  the  similar  institution  in  Tokyo.  The  following 
year  the  middle  school  department,  corresponding  to  an 
American  high  school,  was  given  full  recognition  by  the  Jap¬ 
anese  government,  and  thus  the  graduates  of  Chinzei  Gakuin 
had  the  doors  of  all  government  colleges  and  universities  open 
to  them. 

In  February,  1924,  the  main  building  of  Chinzei  Gakuin  was 
totally  destroyed  by  fire.  With  a  part  of  the  hre  insurance 
money  a  temporary  barracks  building  was  constructed  inside 
the  burned  brick  walls  of  the  former  structure. 

It  is  in  these  temporary  barrack  quarters  that  500  boys  are 
now  attending  classes.  The  last  graduating  class  numbered 
89,  the  largest  in  the  history  of  the  institution.  But  the  school 
cannot  for  long  carry  on  its  work  under  this  handicap  of  lack 
of  space  and  buildings.  If  Japanese  leaders  of  the  future  are 
to  be  trained  here,  the  institution  must  be  adequately  housed. 


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Nagasaki:  The  Glasgow  of  Japan 

THE  city  of  Nagasaki,  on  the  west  shore  of  the  island  of 
Kyushu,  southern  Japan,  is  famous  the  world  over 
to-day  as  one  of  the  great  shipbuilding  centers  of  the  Pacific. 
Three  miles  of  its  waterfront  is  occupied  by  the  Mitsubishi 
Shipbuilding  Company.  Together  with  their  allied  company 
and  backers,  the  Mitsu  Company,  they  form  the  most  power¬ 
ful  financial  and  industrial  organization  in  Japan. 

This  Nagasaki  shipbuilding  yard  normally  employs  12,000 
highly  trained  workmen.  Here  have  been  built  some  of  the 
largest  merchant  vessels  of  the  Pacific  as  well  as  many  large 
naval  ships.  The  city  has  a  total  population  of  176,000  people. 

It  was  this  city  that  Francis  Xavier,  the  noted  Jesuit  mis¬ 
sionary,  made  one  of  his  missionary  centers  for  Japan.  It  is 
interesting  to  note  also  that  the  first  Protestant  missionaries 
who  came  to  Japan  after  Commodore  Perry’s  visit  landed  at 
Nagasaki. 


Shipbuilding  Plant,  Nagasaki 

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In  the  New  Chinzei  Gym 


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Kindergarten  in  Nagasaki 


"Morning  Watch  Band,  Chinzei 


Temple  Pathway,  Nagasaki 
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“STRENGTHEN  THE  CHRISTIAN 
SCHOOLS” 

“The  strengthening  of  the  Christian  schools 
is  one  of  the  salient  needs  of  the  day.  No  one 
would  deny  the  importance  of  laying  siege  to 
the  Government  School  student  body,  but  it  is 
likewise  important  to  create  a  chain  of  Chris¬ 
tian  schools  of  the  highest  quality,  in  every 
section  of  the  empire.  In  the  long  run,  this 
would  be  one  of  the  most  highly  multiplying 
uses  of  missionary  men  and  money.  Who 
prates  of  the  competition  between  the  evangel¬ 
istic  and  the  educational  work?  They  are  one 
and  inseparable,  interacting  organs  of  one  body. 
The  schools  work  on  the  most  plastic  minds, 
not  for  a  few  minutes  a  week,  but  for  months 
on  end.  They  operate  by  peaceful  penetration, 
not  by  sudden  attack ;  but  in  a  true  sense  they 
are  evangelistic.  .  .  . 

“The  achievements  of  the  Christian  schools 
are  remarkable  when  contrasted  with  their 
meagre  equipment  and  resources.  But  if  one 
may  hazard  a  guess,  a  fifty  per  cent  increase  in 
the  grants  for  maintenance  and  buildings  made 
by  the  mission  boards  would  double  the  net 
productivity  of  the  schools.”— GALEN  M.  FISHER 


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A  Missionary  Writes  of  Chinzei 

SOMETHING  of  the  spirit  of  Chinzei  Gakuin,  and  of  the 
faith  and  steadfastness  of  purpose  of  its  staff,  Japanese 
and  American  alike,  may  he  "leaned  from  these  random  para¬ 
graphs  from  letters  of  Glen  Bruner,  missionary  in  Nagasaki: 

89  Graduates  in  1925 

“We  graduated  eighty-nine  hoys  this  spring  (1925).  Of 
this  number  not  quite  half  were  confessing  Christians,  hut 
all  of  them  had  come  to  know  that  the  hated  ‘Jesus  religion’ 
was  a  religion  of  love  and  of  hope.  They  no  longer  fear  Chris¬ 
tianity  as  a  woman  fears  a  serpent.  They  are  not  against 
Christ,  therefore  they  are  for  Him. 

“We  took  124  new  boys  into  the  first-year  class.  They  are 
bright  little  fellows,  and  have  the  making  of  great  men  in 
them  if  we  can  only  live  up  to  our  responsibility. 

Evangelistic  Meetings 

“We  have  just  ended  a  series  of  union  evangelistic  meetings 
that  were  held  in  the  auditorium  of  the  famous  Mitsubishi 
Shipbuilding  Company.  While  I  do  not  know  just  how  many 
decisions  were  made  for  Christ,  I  do  know  that  thousands 
flocked  to  the  meetings  and  heard,  many  of  them  for  the  first 
time,  the  Gospel  message.  The  whole  was  planned  and  car¬ 
ried  out  by  Japanese  leaders,  graduates  of  mission  schools  and 
some  of  them  graduates  of  American  Christian  universities. 
We  feel  that  the  meetings  were  a  decided  success,  and  since 
they  are  the  first  of  the  sort  in  this  city  we  hope  that  they  will 
be  repeated  again  and  again.  .  .  . 


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Nine  Candidates  for  Ministry 

“The  most  important  spiritual 
development  took  place  in  the  hearts 
of  some  seventy  boys  who  confessed 
Christ  as  their  personal  Saviour. 
There  are  nine  candidates  for  the 
ministry  in  school. 

“The  Student  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  the 
Morning  Watch,  and  voluntary 
Bible  classes  aid  in  the  spiritual 
development  ol  the  hoys.  The  firm 
faith  of  the  President,  the  inspiring 
zeal  of  a  devoted,  capable  pastor,  and 
the  leadership  of  Christian  teach¬ 
ers,  all  count  for  the  Master.  .  .  . 


“Any  Room  in  Your  School?’’ 


“They  Have  Become  Christians” 

“A  large  class  of  young  men  will  graduate  this  year,  leaving 
Chinzei  with  high  hopes  for  the  future.  They  have — a  few 
more  than  half  of  them — become  Christians.  Some  of  them 
have  been  disowned,  kicked  out  of  house  and  home  for  that 
very  thing,  for  the  hatred  of  ‘Yaso  Kyo,’  as  the  Jesus  religion 
is  sometimes  called,  is  very  great  in  some  sections.  Those 
who  have  not  openly  accepted  Christ  have  had  their  lives 
changed  bv  contact  with  Christian  teachers — and  the  ideals 
set  for  them  by  these  teachers.” 


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The  Architect’s  Vision  of  the  New  Chinzei  Gakuin 


A  New  Home  for  Chinzei  Gakuin 

FOR  more  than  forty  years  Chinzei  Gakuin  has  stood 
upon  a  hillside  overlooking  Nagasaki  City  and  her  beau¬ 
tiful  harbor  where  vessels  flying  every  flag  of  the  world  drop 
anchor.  Crammed  in  between  mountains  and  sea,  it  has  al¬ 
ways  lacked  a  proper  campus.  Its  property  is  totally  inade¬ 
quate  properly  to  care  for  500  or  more  eager  Japanese  students. 
It  is  built  on  several  different  levels,  thus  making  playground 
and  building  problems  wholly  impossible  to  overcome. 

Even  before  the  disastrous  fire  of  1924  Chinzei  Gakuin  had 
needed  new  buildings  to  house  her  rapidly  growing  student 
body.  The  dormitories,  weakened  by  white  ants,  by  earth¬ 
quake,  and  by  typhoon,  have  had  to  be  taken  down.  The 
fire  destroyed  the  main  building.  The  frame  gymnasium  is 
the  only  suitable  structure  now  giving  service  upon  the  cam¬ 
pus.  There  are  no  suitable  facilities— nothing  but  makeshift 
equipment — for  scientific  laboratory  work,  for  library,  for 
chapel,  for  administrative  offices. 

“Must  Be  Rebuilt” 

“  ‘Carthago  delenda  est’  never  meant  half  so  much  as  ‘Chinzei 
must  be  rebuilt,’  ”  writes  the  Rev.  F.  N.  Scott,  missionary  in 
Nagasaki. 

So  the  Chinzei  Gakuin  authorities  have  purchased  in  one 
of  the  suburbs  of  Nagasaki  a  new  site  upon  which  it  is  pro¬ 
posed  to  build  and  equip  a  modern  school  plant  suitable  for 
Chinzei’s  task  in  training  leaders  of  the  new  Japan.  It  is  an 
old  military  parade  ground;  the  government  has  sanctioned 
its  sale  for  educational  purposes. 

The  old  school  site,  which  has  greatly  increased  in  value 
during  recent  years  by  the  growth  of  the  city  all  around  it,  is  to 


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be  sold.  The  proceeds  will  pay  for  the  new  campus  site,  and 
will  provide  a  nucleus  for  the  new  building  enterprise.  An 
American  friend  of  the  school  has  ottered  #10,000  for  the  erec¬ 
tion  of  new  buildings,  conditional  upon  the  raising  of  the  re¬ 
mainder  needed  to  properly  equip  the  institution.  Yen  20,000 
(#10,000)  is  already  promised  in  Japan  by  alumni  and  con¬ 
stituents. 

The  Buildings 

The  buildings  and  work  needed  upon  the  new  campus,  with 
an  estimate  of  their  probable  cost  (a  building  costing  about 
the  same  in  Japan  as  in  the  United  States)  are: 


Main  building  (recitation  and  administration  rooms) .  #85,000 

Dormitories  for  100  students  (4  units  at  #6,250  each) .  25,000 

Removal  from  old  site,  walls,  roads,  etc .  5,500 

Land .  6,500 

Teachers’  houses  (two  at  #3,500  each) .  7,000 

Total .  #129,000 

One  third  from  Japan .  43,000 

Two  thirds  from  America .  #86,000 


“A  Yen  for  a  Dollar” 

“A  yen  from  Japan  for  every  dollar  from  America”  is  the 
slogan  of  the  Christians  in  and  around  Nagasaki  in  raising 
their  share  of  the  amount.  They  have  pledged  themselves  to 
raise  yen  86,000  (#43,000)  for  the  new  buildings — and  have 
already  made  a  good  start  towards  securing  the  amount. 

On  all  gifts  for  these  buildings,  either  World  Service  “Ap¬ 
portionment”  or  “Special,”  credit  will  be  given,  as  the  donor 
designates.  Gifts  may  take  the  form  of  memorial  buildings  or 
memorial  rooms  to  some  loved  one  in  a  donor’s  family,  or  to 
some  loved  member  of  a  congregation.  Gifts  and  inquiries 


should  be  sent  to  Moms  W.  Ehnes,  treasurer,  Board  of  For¬ 
eign  Missions,  i  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York  City. 

No  more  lasting  or  multiplying  gift  can  be  made  than  one 
which  will  continue  through  the  years  to  exert  its  influence  in 
raising  up  Christian  leaders  in  Japan. 


Board  of  Foreign  Missions, 

Methodist  Episcopal,  Church, 

150  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

Gentlemen:  For  the  new  building  of  Chinzei  Gakuin, 
Nagasaki,  Japan, 

I  will  give  the  sum  of . dollars,  payable 

as  follows . 


Name .  . 
Address 


ANNUITIES 

The  annuity  plan  of  the  Board  of  Foreign  Missions 
makes  it  possible  for  a  donor  to  secure  an  investment 
and  a  guaranteed  income,  probably  above  prevailing 
interest  rates,  and  provides  at  the  same  time  a  gift  to 
help  advance  the  Kingdom  of  God.  Such  a  gilt,  draw¬ 
ing  income  for  the  donor  during  his  or  her  life,  can  be 
designated  for  Chinzei  Gakuin  or  any  other  work  of 
the  Board  of  Foreign  Missions.  Write  for  full  infor- 
mation  to  Morris  W.  Ehnes,  treasurer,  150  Fifth 
Avenue,  New  York  City. 


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